Portable mirror



(No Model.)

W. Q. PREWITT. PORTABLE MIRROR.

No. 484,818. Patented 001;. 25, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM Q. PREWITT, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

PORTABLE MIRROR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,818, dated October25, 1892.

Application filed April 5, 1892- Serial No. 427,794. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Q. PREWITT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Mirrors;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a device for theamusement and edification of visitors at the Worlds Fair to be held inthe city of Chicago in 1893; but the use of my device will of course beequallybeneficial and instructive to others.

The device consists, mainly, of a reflector composed of three or moremirrors arranged together in the form of a hollow prism with their facesinward and supported above the floor or ground, so that a person mayreadily get into the inclosureand perceive many and various reflectionsof himself.

My invention consists in certain details of construction incident to thestructure thus briefly described, all of which will be hereinafter fullyset forth and particularly claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective View of anapparatus constructed in accordance with my invention in position foruse; Fig. 2, a top plan view, on a larger scale, of one of the cornersof the device; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the umbrella-supportfolded.

Like letters of reference in the different figures indicatecorresponding parts.

A represents the reflector-frame, which, in the instance shown, is madeup of three separable mirrors a a a, arranged together in the formof ahollow prism. The mirrors a 0. 0L are provided at their meeting edgeswith arms or brackets 11, through which bolts b are passed and securedto hold the parts together. The brackets 17 are so formed that when themirrors are placed together they form a socket for the reception of legsB, which are held in place by means of bolts 0, passing through the endsof the brackets and holes d in strips d, secured on the legs.

The umbrella-support consists of a socketed piece E, having formed atits lower end radial arms 6, to the under side of which are pivoted bars6, provided with pins 6'. The radial arms e are of such length that whenspread out horizontally they extend to the sides of the mirror and arethere supported by the en-' gagement of the pins 6" with blocks 1),secured on the mirrors. The umbrella-stick is supported in the socketedpiece E, as indicated by the drawings.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have produced a device whichmay be used with great satisfaction by those desiring to see more ofthemselves, and to those desiring to make self-examination of theirphrenological or physiognomical characteristics my instrument will befound very helpful; but in addition to these more serious uses it willafford endless amusement and gratification to the public generally. Itis also obvious that my apparatus may be put together and taken apartwith great facility and dispatch, and by reason of the separability ofits partsthey may be packed into a form convenient for transportationorstorage, and that it may be adjusted vertically upon its support, soas to adapt it to persons of different heights.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knockdown or portable reflector comprising separable mirrorsadapted to be arranged in the form of a prism with theirreflecting-surfaces inward, brackets or clips attached to their edgesfor securing the mirrors together and constructed to form sockets forsupporting-posts, substantially as described.

2. A knockdown or portable reflector comprising separable mirrorsadapted to be arranged in the form of'a prism with theirreflectingsurfaces inward, brackets or clips attached to their edges forsecuring the mirrors together and constructed to form sockets forsupporting-posts, and the posts, the said posts and clips beingapertured to receive a bolt or pin, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM Q. PREWITT. Witnesses:

A. N. DEMAREST, C. L. HUBBARD.

